How to Remove EXIF and GPS Metadata From Photos

The biggest risk is location. Many phones embed GPS coordinates in every shot, and a single photo posted publicly can reveal exactly where it was taken — your home, your child's school, a hotel you're staying at. Beyond location, EXIF can expose the date and time, your camera or phone model, and serial numbers that tie multiple photos back to the same device.

Stripping metadata is worth doing whenever a photo leaves your private circle: listing an item on a marketplace, posting to a forum or social platform that doesn't auto-clean uploads, sending images to a client, or sharing screenshots of documents. It's a small step that closes a surprisingly large privacy gap.

Yes — and that's the whole point. The EXIF Remover does all of its work in your browser using an HTML canvas. Your photo is loaded, redrawn pixel-by-pixel, and re-exported without its metadata, all on your own device. The file is never uploaded to a server, never stored, and never logged.

That also means it works offline once the page has loaded, and it's genuinely free with no account and no per-file limits. You're not trading your privacy for the convenience of cleaning up your privacy.

The tool re-encodes JPEGs at high quality (around 0.92), while PNG and WebP files keep their original format. For everyday photos the difference is invisible, but if you need a pixel-perfect archival master, keep your untouched original — the cleaned copy is best thought of as your share-ready version.

Work from the original file rather than a screenshot when you can, since a fresh export gives the cleanest result. And because the output keeps the same dimensions, you can pair this with Tooldrop's resize or compress tools afterward if you also want a smaller file for the web.

If the tool says it couldn't clean the image, the file may be an unsupported type or corrupted — try a standard JPG, PNG, or WebP. If your file is over the 25 MB limit, run it through an image compressor first, then strip the metadata.

Want to double-check the result? Open the cleaned file's properties (right-click then Details on Windows, or Get Info on Mac) and you'll see the GPS and camera fields are gone. Keep in mind that some social platforms strip metadata on their own, but plenty don't — cleaning it yourself first means you never have to guess.